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(Purple/red were Rusty's initial corrections and I have made some changes and questions in blue!! ¡Gracias por alguna otra ayuda!)
Querido profesor,
Me pone feliz que usted va (wrong mood)(No entiendo – why is it the wrong mood? I’m glad that you are going to spend the year with us – how should this change? Should I use “vaya a pasar” instead? I’ve always just used the present tense of “ir” + a + infinitive to form a future tense. Should I just use “que usted pasaré el año” instead?) a pasar el año con nosotros en Minnesota.
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The main clause is "me pone feliz" = an emotion.
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Sequence of tenses:
main clause verb is "creo" = present tense. controlling verb is "sería".
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En nuestra ciudad no hay muchas tiendas, pero hay un supermercado pequeño y dos estaciones de gasolina (* see note below) (gasolinera – even though they don’t use that word in Chile..) en que puede buscar las cositas cosas necesarias para la vida diaria, como refrescos y meriendas. También hay un café pequeño donde sirve(conjugate for plural, or use a 'se' construct) (so I should use ‘sirven’ to mean that “they serve” it there? I thought it would be ‘sirve’ because “the restaurant serves it” and the restaurant is singular – but I can see why that would use a ‘se’ construct now.) chocolate caliente buenísimo.
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But a restaurant is not a person, and it is not capable of serving anything. So either the restaurant staff serve you (and one generally assumes that more than one person works at the restaurant) or one uses the impersonal 'se' construction.
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No tenemos mucha transportación pública, así (missing something here) (que) la mayoría de la gente tiene que conducir (is this not a good verb? Should I use ‘manejar’ instead?) a (las) (get rid of this article?) otras ciudades para ir de compras.
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I'm uncertain myself here, though (a) there are regional differences in the preferred word that translates "to drive (a vehicle)". I'm not certain that substituting "manejar" for "conducir" resolves the problem; perhaps Rusty will follow up, or one of our native speakers will chime in. It may be as simple as "conducir" has additional meanings and in this context "conducir" is not specific enough or is not the usual way that one says "drive myself by automobile".
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En la ciudad grande más cercana, puede encontrar más supermercados y un centro comercial bastante grande. Hay tiendas de ropa, cafés, zapaterías, y muchas otras tiendas. Es un lugar perfecto para pasar un rato con amigos. En la parte vieja de la ciudad hay tiendas de antiguas (antigüedades – had to look up that word, guess I should have just stayed away from it!!), joyerías, y pastelerías. Esto (Este) es el lugar para buscar recuerdos y regalos, si tiene ganas de comprarlos.
Si usted quiere más información en algunas (wrong words) (sobre algunas – is that ok? Or is there something other than “algunas” also?) tiendas, puede buscarl os ( buscarlas – why did I do that?!?) en la página web de la ciudad o puede preguntarme.
¡Hasta pronto ! ¡Saludos!
-Srta. W
... Would one be more proper than the other? (Your quandary is between using direct language and generic address. Since you directly addressed your visitor everywhere else, I see no need to break the trend for one sentence.) Makes sense!!
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"En" is a strange way to translate "about"; "sobre" is better, and "de" would work as well.
Did you want to say "If you want to get more information about stores/some stores/any stores/the stores" (that is, a general statement), rather than "If you want to get information about some stores (and not about other stores)", then "algunas" may not give the right shade of meaning.